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APPLYING PRACTICAL INSIGHT TO
COMPLEX FINANCIAL CONCEPTS

Karen Firestone has spent over thirty years honing skills applied to
the investment world, while at the same time navigating a path through the work/familyscape. She considers many issues from an unusual angle, including stock market movement, factors facing professional women today, and how to think in simple terms about some complex financial structures. Karen shares her observations in posts that also appear in the Harvard Business Review and Huffington Post. As the CEO of Aureus Asset Management, a former fund manager at Fidelity Investments, and the mother of four grown children, Karen has a rare perspective into which she injects humor and some irreverence.

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ The trajectory of the economic recovery remains frustratingly uneven nearly seven years after it began — but plenty is going right at the same time. Jobs up, GDP weak, but there are signs that second half will benefit from the weaker dollar and higher energy prices. Read the full article in…

Nariman Behravesh, IHS chief economist, and Karen Firestone, Aureus Asset Management, provide their outlook the economy after the fed signals it’s not in a rush to raise interest rates. Watch the full video on CNBC.com

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ This article shows lays out the new Consumer economy where we have services on demand, price by the minute, and tiered layers of all products. Read the full article in The New York Times

Kari has been recognized by Dot Complicated with Randi Zuckerberg (which airs on SiriusXM Channel 111) in its #52women52weeks campaign, where the show recognizes a woman in business once a week for a full year. Check out the conversation on her LinkedIn page here

By PETER LOFTUS April 14, 2016 12:01 a.m. ET The new Hepatitis C drugs are accounting for much of this increase. Will it be worth it to have brought such headline risk to the industry? Read the full article in The Wall Street Journal

By Cynthia Littleton April 6, 2016 In a recent story for Variety, Cynthia talks to Kari about the number of women on Wall Street and how running her own firm keeps her in constant motion. Read the full story in Variety

By Karen Firestone MARCH 11, 2016 Karen’s latest piece featured in the Harvard Business Review discusses the impossibility of avoiding risk altogether. Read the full article on HBR.com Kalinda has a high-paying job at an investment company and lives outside of Boston with her fiancé. They love running in the parks near their home…